Guttman Community College

Stella and Charles Guttman Community College is a public community college in New York City. It is the newest of the City University of New York's (CUNY) community colleges and was founded on September 11, 2011. It opened on August 20, 2012 as New Community College. In April 2013 the college was renamed following a $15 million endowment from the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation.

Stella and Charles Guttman
Community College
Former names
New Community College
TypePublic community college
Established2011 (2011)
Parent institution
City University of New York
PresidentDr. Doris Cintrón
ProvostHoward Wach
Academic staff
  • 47 full-time faculty*26 part-time faculty[1]
Students995 (as of Fall 2016)[1]
Location
New York City
,
New York
,
United States

40.7529°N 73.9841°W / 40.7529; -73.9841
CampusUrban
Websitewww.guttman.cuny.edu

Guttman offers associate degree programs with majors in liberal arts, business, social work, information technology (IT), and urban studies. Students are accepted with either a high school diploma or Certificate of High School Equivalency. The school uses the city as an outdoor, hands-on classroom. Instead of remedial classes, it requires first-year students to take a course called "City Seminar," which blends math, reading, and writing into lessons about sustainability and immigration in New York.

History
Three members of the founding class of Guttman Community College

Guttman was the first new community college established by City University of New York (CUNY) in over 40 years. The planning was begun in 2008 on the initiative of CUNY's Chancellor at the time, Matthew Goldstein. The planning phase was supported by CUNY funds, an initial allocation $8.9 million from the City of New York's annual budget, and donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Michael Bloomberg's Center for Economic Opportunity.[2][3] Described by The New York Times as "a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges," Guttman College's academic structure and curriculum were designed from scratch in an effort to improve students' chances of completing their associate degrees and transferring to four-year colleges for further study.[4]

In 2010, the first faculty were appointed and Scott E. Evenbeck, professor of psychology and dean of University College at Indiana University-Purdue University, was named the founding President, taking up his post in January 2011.[5] The college was officially established on September 11, 2011 and opened with its first intake of students in August 2012. The college had, and continues to have, an open admissions policy, provided students have a high school diploma or a Certificate of High School Equivalency. However, unlike any of the other schools within CUNY, applicants are not considered until they have attended a lengthy information session and one-on-one interviews with counselors. Of its initial 4,000 applicants, 504 went through the information session and interviews. Of those, approximately 300 decided to enroll in the founding class.[4][6]

The college opened under the name "New Community College." In April 2013 following the gift of a $15 million endowment from the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation, one of the largest ever donations to a public two-year college, the CUNY Board of Trustees passed a resolution renaming the college "Stella and Charles Guttman Community College."[7]

Academics

Opening its doors in August 2012, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College offers associate degree programs that emphasize experiential education, the adoption of learning communities and instructional teams, and a strong value placed on being simultaneously “high tech” and “high touch.” The College provides a supportive environment that nurtures student success with the goal to increase the graduation rate for our students, many of whom are the first in their family to attend college. All students begin in the required Summer Bridge Program and engage full-time in a city-centered first-year experience before starting their major coursework in one of five degree programs. Instructional teams comprising faculty members, student success advocates, graduate coordinators, peer mentors and library staff create a rich classroom environment complemented by an integrated advisement program to help students stay on the path to graduation.

References

Notes

  1. Guttman Community College. Fast Facts. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  2. Iasevoli, Brenda (27 October 2010). "A New CUNY Community College Is Opening in 2012". The Village Voice. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  3. Santora, Marc (26 January 2009). "CUNY Plans New Approach to Community College". New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  4. Pérez-Peña, Richard (20 July 2012). "The New Community College Try". New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  5. City University of New York press release (22 July 2010). "Dr. Scott E. Evenbeck Named Founding President Of The City University of New York’s New Community College". Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  6. Guttman Community College. Stella and Charles Guttman Community College: A Timeline Archived 2013-11-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  7. Kaminer, Ariel (29 April 2013). "$15 Million Gift and New Name for Community College". New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2013.

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